- July 14, 2013
- TwinSpark Porsche Parts
- Posted by Rick Bruins
- Comments Off on Overall wins for TwinSpark RSR 3.0 at Assen TT track
Under blue skies, in summer temperatures we kicked off our racing weekend here at Assen, The Netherlands: Round 2 of the Dutch Historic GT and Touring Car Championship by Dantuma. The field includes one other ’74 RSR, of Gerd Rijper as the rest of the Porsche participants are (re-)building cars and engines. They will trickle in again over the course of the season and into the next year.
Qualifying happened in the morning and I took pole with a fastest ever 1.58.5 lap time, 3.5 seconds faster than the car had ever been on this track.
The Hulk as undergone quite a bit of work over the spring and Lex has changed the hubs, disks, pads, sway bars and the exhaust. The car sits on 16inch wheels now and drives even more sturdily than before. Actually it drives like a dream.
The new exhaust (our own prototype) has created more room for outflow and has [...]
- May 27, 2013
- TwinSpark Porsche Parts
- Posted by Rick Bruins
- Comments Off on Staying Power gives EB Porsche a Brands Hatch edge
Our friends at EB Motorsport had a good weekend at this year’s Brand Hatch Historic Festival, part of the 2013 FIA Masters Historic series. Masters Series events enjoyed full grids all weekend, with plenty of cars on track doing battle: just what the spectators wanted!
EB’s terrific Guards Red Porsche 911 3.0 RS suffered a few irritating glitches, which ruled it out of two events, but the Light Yellow 911 RSR went well all weekend. The 3.0-litre Porsche 911 RSR couldn’t quite match the pace of the bigger-engined cars on the straights of the Brands Hatch GP circuit. A pair of Corvettes outqualified the EB Motorsport Porsche 3.0 RSR by just over a second for Monday’s racing.
As ever, the [...]
- May 21, 2013
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- Posted by Rick Bruins
- Comments Off on Solid Season Start: 3 times P2 Overall, 1st in Class
Photo’s by Erik van der Schaaff.
Last weekend started with an open pit lane training day where we could scrub the tires in. You may remember we did a lot of work to our 1974 RSR The Hulk over the winter, so I was anxious to know how it all played out… Just lapping at an easy pace (at least that’s how it felt) I was already doing race pace laps of last year! Clearly the car had been transformed by Lex Proper, our TwinSpark partner RSR guru.
I called it quits after one session as the car handled just right and I wanted to save the tires for lap time that really mattered.
The changes implemented on the car were:
Fine tuning the MFI pump settings on the rolling road.
New, stiffer, adjustable sway bars or “stabi’s” as we call them, in original lightweight RSR [...]
